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Hi there everyone, you’re friendly neighborhood modcrew here with some proposed application changes!
We’ve been hearing that you guys would like to see a harder app process and we ran with this idea, deciding to change it around in a way we hope is for the better. What we have in mind is a new system involving prompts. Basically, each month, applicants will be given five prompts. Of these prompts, you will pick two and write a response, in character. It can be third person, first person, whatever person you want so long as you write 150 words a prompt. Each month, these five prompts will be traded out for something new, so that it remains ‘fresh’ and you have a variety to work with. (And we’d be open to you submitting prompt ideas to us!)
Before we come to a final decision on this, we'd like to have your input. Another option is to keep it to one sample instead of two, and simply increase the required word count. Let us know what you'd prefer.
Character notes will remain mostly the same. We will allow Wikipedia links in place of a written response, but we will strongly encourage you to write a history of your own. The more you show you know your character, the better chance you have of getting accepted, right? Writing a little about your character's history and personality will greatly affect your application’s final result. But as we said, you will still be allowed link to a wiki page.
Now, we’d like to know what you think! Comment away!
Edit: Considering![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
maraihi's suggestion to have the option to pick a prompt to work off of OR to write your own sample post of a required length (to be debated)-- what do you guys think of that?
We’ve been hearing that you guys would like to see a harder app process and we ran with this idea, deciding to change it around in a way we hope is for the better. What we have in mind is a new system involving prompts. Basically, each month, applicants will be given five prompts. Of these prompts, you will pick two and write a response, in character. It can be third person, first person, whatever person you want so long as you write 150 words a prompt. Each month, these five prompts will be traded out for something new, so that it remains ‘fresh’ and you have a variety to work with. (And we’d be open to you submitting prompt ideas to us!)
Before we come to a final decision on this, we'd like to have your input. Another option is to keep it to one sample instead of two, and simply increase the required word count. Let us know what you'd prefer.
Character notes will remain mostly the same. We will allow Wikipedia links in place of a written response, but we will strongly encourage you to write a history of your own. The more you show you know your character, the better chance you have of getting accepted, right? Writing a little about your character's history and personality will greatly affect your application’s final result. But as we said, you will still be allowed link to a wiki page.
Now, we’d like to know what you think! Comment away!
Edit: Considering
maraihi's suggestion to have the option to pick a prompt to work off of OR to write your own sample post of a required length (to be debated)-- what do you guys think of that?
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Basically, 'Character Notes' is a summed up way of saying history/personality though a lot of people tend to pass it over or put jokes in instead (I'm totally guilty of that too XD). We allow wiki linking just for our sake, I think. I think the consensus was we didnt want to make it mandatory for people to write out histories or personalities (as it was sort of implied you would, beyond wiki-linking) but we are going to give kudos to people who do make the effort to write something themselves. Like, honestly, it'll help the mods see you know who you're playing.
At the end of the day, with the opportunity to show you know how to play a character? If you opt to just put a wiki link when you -can- show us you know, you're only hurting yourself. XD;; I hope this made sense and wasn't like, completely missing the point. Haha.
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